{"id":120506,"date":"2021-03-12T20:24:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T04:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/researchers-create-a-new-transistor-based-on-metal-nanoparticles-and-ionic-gradients"},"modified":"2021-03-12T20:24:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T04:24:23","slug":"researchers-create-a-new-transistor-based-on-metal-nanoparticles-and-ionic-gradients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/researchers-create-a-new-transistor-based-on-metal-nanoparticles-and-ionic-gradients","title":{"rendered":"Researchers create a new transistor based on metal nanoparticles and ionic gradients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-create-a-new-transistor-based-on-metal-nanoparticles-and-ionic-gradients2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Transistors, devices that can amplify, conduct or switch electronic signals or electric current, are key components of many electronics on the market today. These devices can be fabricated using a variety of inorganic and organic semiconducting materials.<\/p>\n<p>Metals are generally considered unsuitable for fabricating <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/transistors\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">transistors<\/a>, as they screen electric fields and thus make it difficult to realize devices with tunable electrical conductivity. A possible way to create <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/electronic+components\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electronic components<\/a> based on metals is to use gradients of counterions in films of metal nanoparticles functionalized with charged organic ligands.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, engineers have successfully used this strategy to create a variety of devices, ranging from resistors to diodes and sensors. Nonetheless, modulating the electrical conductivity of these devices has often proved to be very challenging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transistors, devices that can amplify, conduct or switch electronic signals or electric current, are key components of many electronics on the market today. These devices can be fabricated using a variety of inorganic and organic semiconducting materials. Metals are generally considered unsuitable for fabricating transistors, as they screen electric fields and thus make it difficult [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}